The tile counter
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The tile counter |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 70 minutes |
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| Director |
Hans-Günter Brodmann Veit Güssow |
| script | Hans-Günter Brodmann Veit Güssow Marina Schütz |
| production | Hans-Günter Brodmann |
| music | Hans-Günter Brodmann Frank Möbus |
| camera | Hans-Günter Brodmann |
| cut | Hans-Günter Brodmann |
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The tile counter is a 70-minute film by Hans-Günter Brodmann . The film was shot in 2002 in the Volksbad Nürnberg , which has been vacant and unused since 1994 . The Art Nouveau bath with its unique aesthetics is not only the backdrop and location for the film, but also the impetus for the action: the beauty of decommissioned Art Nouveau pools, oppressive rooms behind the swimming pool scenery, dilapidated tubs, labyrinthine boiler rooms and control rooms similar to power plants. This high-contrast aesthetic is translated into poetic camera language. Inspired by this, the directors develop a tragicomic story together with a lively improvising actress. The film premiered on May 17, 2003 during the Blue Night in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg .
action
The film tells the story of a woman with an unusual profession. From a voyeuristic point of view, the viewer observes the tile counter at her home and workplace. The rigid everyday life of women, dominated by annoying rituals, gradually begins to fall apart. An unusual transformation process begins.
Unfamiliar impulses and feelings gradually creep into the strictly regulated life of the woman trapped in herself. Overwhelmed by her fantasies and visions, which increase in intensity, the tile counter begins to change in a painful but also redeeming process. The viewer accompanies the protagonist through unexpected events and surprising twists until the end of her complex transformation.
Reviews
The Nürnberger Nachrichten reported on the film: "She counts new rows of tiles every day, brushes between the joints with a brush and hangs her white smock meticulously on the hanger after the work is done." Background noise its charm. "" The monotony of a tile wall provokes true nightmares or pleasure dreams, depending on the perspective of the beholder. "
On November 6, 2003, the film was mentioned in the Harald Schmidt Show on SAT 1 .
Web links
- The tile counter at crew united
- Website "The tile counter"
- Website by Hans-Günter Brodmann
- Frank Möbus website with selection discography
Individual evidence
- ↑ The tile counter at diekachelzaehlerin.de, accessed on January 4, 2020.
- ^ The madness of the tile fairy at Nürnberger Nachrichten - Kultur Regional - May 9, 2003.